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Student Ticket Prices & Cyclone Alley

This is a topic split away from a recent post about Cyclone Alley where a member was complaining about the ridiculous price of $30 on top of $125 for lower level seating at Hilton for basketball events. This sparked an idea and thus, a comparison of ISU and other Big 12 schools student ticket offerings (in price high to low):

Oklahoma - $335 (or $155 for basketball only)

Oklahoma State - $330 (or $242 for bball only & $172 for football only)

Re: Student Ticket Prices & Cyclone Alley

Originally Posted by IcSyU

I wanna say mine broke down
$125 Football
$125 Men's Basketball
$20 Kansas State Football Game
$10 Service Charge.

So $260 with service charge.

I did not count the Kansas City game in there, and counted the $30 CA fee for 'premier' basketball seating; so I guess the total could be $290. I did not find anything else like Cyclone Alley other then K-State's premier/general seating for their student tickets.

Re: Student Ticket Prices & Cyclone Alley

Originally Posted by SvrWxCy

It would be interesting to break down the difference in revenue that would be for the athletic fund... Could likely get more student fans in general to attend as well!!

In fairness, only $12 goes to CA. The rest goes to the SAA. They are who I have a problem with. Bunch of **** suckers for pairing that **** together, and they aren't backing down from it anytime soon. My recommendation is walking in to buy your CA thing during football season and saying you already have the SA card and don't need another one.

Re: Student Ticket Prices & Cyclone Alley

Originally Posted by IcSyU

In fairness, only $12 goes to CA. The rest goes to the SAA. They are who I have a problem with. Bunch of **** suckers for pairing that **** together, and they aren't backing down from it anytime soon. My recommendation is walking in to buy your CA thing during football season and saying you already have the SA card and don't need another one.

I agree with you here, we pay for SAA but don't get much out of it. There is no reason that students should have to pay for that garbage.

At the assumed level, current football revenue is $875,000, and current MBB revenue from season tickets is $375,000, which is $1.25 million in ticket revenue. Assuming an enrollment of 29,000 students, a $40 athletic fee comes back at $1.16 million. The difference is $90,000 in the short term, BUT if attendance increases, some/maybe all of that amount will be offset in concessions/gameday shirts/etc. This doesn't include long term benefits of a possible relationship built with a future donor.

Now with explaining that to GSB...if I recall correctly, GSB allocated approximately $1.9 million last year, or about $65 per student in fees to the clubs, which I'd be shocked if more than 6,000-8,000 students are involved in (most of the "clubs" on campus are about 10 people), so they can't say squat about not wanting to charge students for something they may never use. Additionally, students passed the rec renovation bill, which pushed the activity fee north of $200 after being less than $50 previously, so it isn't completely unprecedented for students to approve such a measure.

In the end, the athletics department wins big, and roughly half of the students at Iowa State benefit. Just need to simply have students pick up tickets for each event so you don't get 15,000 students trying to show up for a football game (like they did for the Iowa wrestling meet two years ago).

Note: Quick calculation I did shows they could raise tuition by $40 and it would be a .006555% increase for in-state students.

Re: Student Ticket Prices & Cyclone Alley

Originally Posted by IcSyU

I wanna say mine broke down
$125 Football
$125 Men's Basketball
$20 Kansas State Football Game
$10 Service Charge.

So $260 with service charge.

Yeah, this is right. I just looked through my email and found this, which includes the Kansas City game, the football T-shirt, and the $30 charge for SAA/CA. So this is the total with all the options included.

Re: Student Ticket Prices & Cyclone Alley

What I think they should do is just add it on automatically to the basketball ticket price. I'm not sure on the exact number of student tickets we sell but I think its around 4000. If 4000 students by tickets and 2000 buy cyclone alley, and than the other 2000 people complain about how they can't sit in the lower level. How about just making the entire student section cyclone alley but get rid of it as an add on. Just raise the student ticket price by $15, and that money goes to run cyclone alley. I think that would get rid of people who buy tickets but never come to games because they can't sit close.

Re: Student Ticket Prices & Cyclone Alley

I agree with you here, we pay for SAA but don't get much out of it. There is no reason that students should have to pay for that garbage.

I agree that the mandatory pairing is ridiculous. Students should be able to choose which group they deem valuable-enough to pay money.

Personally, I've never gotten anything useful from CA (yes, I have the shirts, but everyone and their dog gives away free shirts in college anyway so I don't consider it a tangible/worthwhile benefit of CA), but I have made good use of my SAA discounts (admittedly, not until the very end of my undergrad and when I lived a ways from campus).

I also don't attend MBB games (never been a big basketball person and as such $120+ for tickets is too rich for my blood) so I don't have to deal with the CA shenanigans at the games. I enjoy the lower seating at WBB games, but try to hang back a few rows in deference to the students who felt the $30 for CA was worth it.

In regards to the MBB student ticket prices (again, I don't buy them), I think that the prices are acceptable. If you consider the cost of comparable seating in Hilton, the students are getting a good deal.

Re: Student Ticket Prices & Cyclone Alley

The only complaints I have for cyclone alley is it paired it's membership with the SAA. The last two years I have just got the balcony corners and ignored the cyclone alley option. They need to do away with the same t-shirt rule every game. Finally, last complaint cyclone alley just goes for student orientation and really market it toward incoming freshman. So everbody that buys into cyclone alley for the most part are your fair weather fans. You would be surprised at the amount of students that don't even want to bother with cyclone alley. Most of my friends, seniors have tickets, but none of us have Cyclone alley.

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